Air France Fall/Winter sale
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Clarification: October <b>15</b> to March <b>15</b>. Still, such a welcome relief from the sticker shock of summer travel this year. And it's only <b>$60</b> surcharge to <b>any</b> of <b>sixty</b> cities! Dare we go to Russia in the second half of October? Will it snow? Or is this the opportunity to give my wife a glimpse of Greece or Portugal?
Decisions, decisions...
Best wishes,
Rex
Decisions, decisions...
Best wishes,
Rex
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From an email I recieved from Air France:
$438 for New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C.;
$538 for Chicago, Detroit;
$638 for Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco.
Must be purchased by May 22, 2006, 11:59 p.m. EDT. Saturday night stay is required; maximum stay one month. Weekend surcharge applies to travel between Friday - Sunday, each way. Travel must be on Air France-coded flights and must originate from an Air France U.S. gateway. Ticketing required within 24 hours of reservation confirmation. Fares shown above include fuel surcharge. Government-imposed fees and taxes between approximately $87 and $122 are additional, and include the September 11th Security Fee of up to $10 per round-trip. After issuance, tickets are not refundable. Changes are permitted for a $200 fee. One free stopover in Paris permitted. Other restrictions may apply. Fare is subject to limited availability and may be changed or withdrawn without notice. copyright 2006 Air France.
**list of 60 eligible cities:
Nice, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Mulhouse, Metz, Strasbourg, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Naples, Bologna, Genoa, Pisa, Turin, Verona, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao, Lisbon, Porto, Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, London, Glasgow, Manchester, Southampton, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice, Prague, St Petersburg, Budapest, Bucharest, Zagreb, Tunis, Casablanca, Marrakech, Rabat, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Salzburg, Zurich, Basel, Geneva
You've got to be a real planner to commit within the next 4 days for a trip that could be 10 months from now. Personally, I'm not that organized.
$438 for New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C.;
$538 for Chicago, Detroit;
$638 for Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco.
Must be purchased by May 22, 2006, 11:59 p.m. EDT. Saturday night stay is required; maximum stay one month. Weekend surcharge applies to travel between Friday - Sunday, each way. Travel must be on Air France-coded flights and must originate from an Air France U.S. gateway. Ticketing required within 24 hours of reservation confirmation. Fares shown above include fuel surcharge. Government-imposed fees and taxes between approximately $87 and $122 are additional, and include the September 11th Security Fee of up to $10 per round-trip. After issuance, tickets are not refundable. Changes are permitted for a $200 fee. One free stopover in Paris permitted. Other restrictions may apply. Fare is subject to limited availability and may be changed or withdrawn without notice. copyright 2006 Air France.
**list of 60 eligible cities:
Nice, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Mulhouse, Metz, Strasbourg, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Naples, Bologna, Genoa, Pisa, Turin, Verona, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao, Lisbon, Porto, Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, London, Glasgow, Manchester, Southampton, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice, Prague, St Petersburg, Budapest, Bucharest, Zagreb, Tunis, Casablanca, Marrakech, Rabat, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Salzburg, Zurich, Basel, Geneva
You've got to be a real planner to commit within the next 4 days for a trip that could be 10 months from now. Personally, I'm not that organized.
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We usually book on this sale since my husband is a teacher in a private school with a vacation the last two weeks in March. It usually works out really well for us. Unfortunately the website says travel by March 31st but won't accept bookings after March 11th.
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I'm that organized (read: anal retentive)!
Just booked DC to Paris for February. Will spend 3 nights in Brugge, Belgium (beer hunting West Flanders) and 2 nights in Paris. Think my early planning paid off extremely well this time...snagged an early bird 45% discount at Hotel Henri IV Rive Gauche in Paris for a whopping 88Euro a night!
Not too shabby.
Just booked DC to Paris for February. Will spend 3 nights in Brugge, Belgium (beer hunting West Flanders) and 2 nights in Paris. Think my early planning paid off extremely well this time...snagged an early bird 45% discount at Hotel Henri IV Rive Gauche in Paris for a whopping 88Euro a night!
Not too shabby.
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I'm starting to think maybe Bucharest - - who wants to help me plan a trip 4 nights Paris, three nights Romania? Warmer than Russia, plus presumably I can learn a decent amount of Romanian between now and October.
Whaddaya think?
Whaddaya think?
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rex,
Sounds great - it's on my list also (though not in the next year).
To whet your appetite. Here are Clifton's Romania photos:
http://www.trekearth.com/members/Cli...urope/Romania/
And a report:
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34543931
Sounds great - it's on my list also (though not in the next year).
To whet your appetite. Here are Clifton's Romania photos:
http://www.trekearth.com/members/Cli...urope/Romania/
And a report:
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34543931
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Alitalia now seeking to match? (only vaguely) - - http://www.expedia.com/daily/advert/...813&#terms - - they say from $444+ "and up"...
Can BA, KLM, Lufthansa and/or Iberia be far behind?
Nothing on the Cheap Flights forum of eurotrip.com yet...
Haven't been able to find any compelling deal to Greece.
Thanks for the links to Clifton's mega-report. Any one know any threads about the Black Sea resorts of Romania? Need not be swim or scuba warm so late in the year to be pleasant - - but hopefully not cold (yes, I know I could go look on worldclimate.com or weatherbase.com for these answers)...
Can BA, KLM, Lufthansa and/or Iberia be far behind?
Nothing on the Cheap Flights forum of eurotrip.com yet...
Haven't been able to find any compelling deal to Greece.
Thanks for the links to Clifton's mega-report. Any one know any threads about the Black Sea resorts of Romania? Need not be swim or scuba warm so late in the year to be pleasant - - but hopefully not cold (yes, I know I could go look on worldclimate.com or weatherbase.com for these answers)...
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Okay, answering my own weather question - - probably not much different than where I live (southern Indiana), or the Jersey shore, for a maritime comparison - - season "over" for seaside tourism, I am guessing...
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rex, everyone we met in Romania spoke French - except the [rhymes with] witch at the money exchange counter at the airport. She probably knew how, but pretended not to. It was such a dreary place in 1982.
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Hm...maybe I'm missing something, but when I follow the instructions per Air France and try to book a multiple destination trip, with JFK-CDG, and then CDG-Sevilla, and from Sevilla-JFK, I get a rate of $1770!!! That's before taxes!!!
Am I doing something wrong? I'm choosing dates in late January/early February...
Am I doing something wrong? I'm choosing dates in late January/early February...
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mcnyc - The offer is for roundtrip and open-jaw travel. Not circle trip.
I punched in some Jan dates for:
JFK-CDG
SVQ-JFK (actually SVQ-ORY, then CDG-JFK)
The price is $547.87, including tax.
Just buy your Paris-Seville ticket seperately.
I punched in some Jan dates for:
JFK-CDG
SVQ-JFK (actually SVQ-ORY, then CDG-JFK)
The price is $547.87, including tax.
Just buy your Paris-Seville ticket seperately.